OpenExtensions for z/VM "Q"s and "A"s

Question: Does OpenExtensions for z/VM support the "magic value" convention to set up an alternate script interpreter ? I just tried setting the first line to 

#!/home/gxxxxxx/scratch/bin/perl

and got an error message as if OE was trying to use POSIX-shell to interpret the file, rather than the perl that I was expecting.

Response: The "pound-bang" syntax is not supported on OpenExtensions for z/VM and, apparently, we're not alone. For systems that do not support it, Wall and Schwartz in Programming Perl recommend replacing 

#!/usr/bin/perl
with this:
  eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
    if 0;

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